Valheim Ashlands Almost BROKE Us! (Playthrough 15+ hours)
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- čas přidán 19. 06. 2024
- The Valheim Ashlands update is here! This is the playthrough of roughly 15-20 hours of our time trying to survive the Ashlands biome. Today, My friends and I try to figure out how to get to the inaccessible flametal ore. We fell into the lava way too many times, and then we attempt to siege a Charred Fortress with our shiny new Battering Ram. We've gone into this journey in pretty much spoiler-free.
Part 1: • Valheim Ashlands is BR...
Note: As mentioned in the video, this gameplay was recorded on the final release of the public test version of the Ashlands update, right before its official release. I'm not sure which changes, if any, have been made since!
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Music:
All music is by me, but none of the songs have names :(
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World seed: 1 (Yes, just the number 1)
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Timestamps:
0:00 Previously on...
0:36 Sailing to the Ashlands (again)
6:11 Basalt Bombs & More
7:40 Difficulty Changes
8:46 Learning About the Enemies
9:27 Everything Goes Wrong 1
12:25 Everything Goes Wrong 2
16:15 Charred Fortress Siege 1
18:00 Fighting Solo
19:38 Charred Fortress Siege 2
22:47 So Many New Things!!
24:55 Thoughts
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Special thanks:
No - Hry
Has the Ashlands made you angrier than any other biome in this game, or is it just us?
(As I say at the end, most of the deaths are from us not being well prepared, but at the very least it was also very funny for us at the same time!)
nah definitely only y'all lol I didn't die not even once lol🤣totally not a lie zero deaths 😤 👀
@@B.A.D.Company69 Hahaha sounds legit
Mistlands was rougher imo
Mistlands are way worse IMHO. But my opinion is definitely influenced by a hella interesting fight with the Fader boss. The best boss in game so far
Nope, i just turned on doom music and started mascaring demons there.
watching this as a solo players makes me wonder, how in the fuck am I gonna even get there
haha. I had to take a break after two deaths and contemplate on my life decisions.
I usually play in duo, my friend got so mad that he quit the game and playing solo feels impossible HAHAHA
@@noobasf9011 same, lol.
Corpse run
Are you free to game any time Thursday- Sunday night?
"I'm going to die aren't I". This is the role I fill in my Valheim group, a very important and integral one. You encourage the others to fight on and avenge you. Works every time. Except when it doesn't. Which is all the time in Ashlands.
lmao every group needs one!
Burning through food potions and everything this biome is hell
That's why you need to cook and brew lots of things like I did ;)
well couldnt one say that you actually ARE in hell in this game?
All that lava has evolved me from Mr Beef to Roast Beef
Ashlands is the best example of "1 step forward 2 steps back" 😭
quick tip for you guys raid a siege castle by build stairs without breaking the gates and make it your base in ashland you will be protected from all walking mobs with excpetion of flying ones
That's an awesome idea!
I also saw someone use a hoe and build up the ground to jump the wall.
literally just finished watching part 1 and then this dropped right when i was looking for part 2. perfect timing; loved part 1
Haha perfect!!
“That lox was still having a better time than we were about to have” lmao
Nice to see someone sharing my pain. One of u guys should use magic, makes it a little easier.
Haha nice to see it ain't just us too. Yeah I mention it at the end of the vid!
@@BigBrianGameplay just saw it, great vid! yoyito screaming falling in lava was hilarious
Lmao that was my favourite part. Probably a good thing her mic gave out
I landed on the Ashlands for the first time today. The difficulty is pretty rough down there. I haven't put that much time in yet but after watching your video I feel like the devs need to take the nerf hammer on that place a little. Dying here and there is part of the game, but constantly dying and doing corpse runs gets unfun in a hurry. Great vid!
My first travel to Ashlands also ended with sunken drakkar (I used it as a hideout and attacked enemies with bow from there). Then on the shore I was attacked by "starred" enemies and almost died but managed to flee from the shore only to find some animals chasing me. By luck I managed to climb up the ladder in some ruins. Then I started to make my mini-base there, but enemies regularly destroyed my teleport and then destroyed the big rock from which I tried to kill them with my bow. So they destroyed teleport and killed me. I had to build one more drakkar and return back. This time I managed to encircle my mini-base with deep trench. And I built one more teleport on the top of some ruins to feel even more safe.
I already found cave and built new type of teleports. But sadly I did not find the ore in lava yet.
I have to admit that playing it alone is a hardcore until you entrench your base. And even then there are chances valkyries can visit it.
its crazy going from seeing maybe 1-2 regular serpents every once in a while, sometimes never it would seem like.. to like freaking running into 8-10 on a single trip. defiantly caught me off guard on my first trip into the ashlands
Let’s be honest, the misery of players going to the Ashlands and some being unprepared is entertaining as hell 😂 with what transpires with them on their journey. It’s not that you don’t want to see them succeed, but you do want to see them face some challenges. However, the challenges can be so soul crushing 😮that you can’t help but feel so entertained just watching in awe with your jaw on the floor going damn! In Valheim I’ve learned on any boat journey, make sure you can easily build 2-3 boats as you just might need them all. Enjoying the journey with you all 😂😂😂.
Been so hyped for this video! You're a legend
Hell yea! Cheers mate
Ashlands is really something else. I coop this game with my cousin and somehow we managed to sail through the spikes at first try (didn't do any research beforehand so the spikes were a surprise). On the main land it was even more terrible. You don't have 5 seconds rest to build a portal in a safe location, just hordes of enemies all the time. At one point we got so sick of it, I resorted to using the "kill command" in devmode. Literally pressing this key every 5 seconds killed about 10-15 enemies, it's insane!
Seeing this video it seems were weren't the only ones struggling. I can't imagine doing ashlands as a solo player haha
yup, its like watching the replay on my moments on ashland. raided the fortress with 5 friends. 5 vs army of undead, 3 normal morgens, a 2 star morgens, 2 big fcking bird that kept spamming tatsumaki senpukaku and hadokens. the stress was intense.
Haha sounds about right!
Haven’t got raided by the undead army yet y’all got great rng 😂
Haha we've been raided three times by them, once in the first vid, a second time in the plains which I cut out of this vid, and then the third time I barely got to see in this video. Honestly at the time of the first raid that was when spawns were crazy and we barely noticed a difference haha
Buddy and I having a tough time just the two of us and we did a sort of cheaty world just to speed up testing the ashlands and wow is it hard even with max mistlands stuff!! Loving the biome so far though this is a challenge and it's different than the other biomes challenges so I really appreciate the devs for this work!! Also love the video funny and informative
Cheers mate. Glad you're enjoying the update!
Legend, amazing story telling as always!
Thanks!
This biome has been destroying me as a solo player. Once I sailed in and put a portal down, it took me like 2+ hours and 10 deaths in before I was able to get a small hut built. Brutal!
Ooft. Hopefully it'll get better from there
@@BigBrianGameplay it has! Today I switched from the mist walker back to my previous favorite, the frostner. The knockback has truly leveled the playing field for me and I’m having some fun exploring a bit now!
My team of 4 went to the Ashlands for the first time yesterday. We were almost squad wiped before we even touched land, were completely squad wiped when we touched land. after we established our base in the Ashlands, we had died all together around 70 times if you include running back to our bodies. We had only explored maybe 2.5% of what a normal biome size is in the game. An area small enough that if unimpeded you could run from one end to the other in about 45 seconds. While we play on hardmode, this is after about 9 hours of gameplay. The Ashlands is next level and I believe it to be nearly a fake difficulty. It's not hard because you need skill to solve it, or special tactics... It's a bullshit difficulty, they just make it unfair. The lava blobs the fly out of the lava pools will actually target you. They aren't random. The flametal sinking thing is a bit stupid, the enemy spam is insane. The ranged accuracy and damage is pathetic. It's just unfair until you have serious progress and start taming the Avskins and have upgraded flametal items. I have not reached the point of attacking the forts yet... Seeing this video, Brian and his team are playing on normal difficulty. On hard you would not survive a single hit from a Morgen even with base level flametal armor.
So those fortresses are indestructible except by siege weapons. When i wanted to make a safe base, i built up over one, used magic to kill everything inside to the best of my abilities (Specifically the fireball staff from the mistlands), jumped over it and claimed the base as mine. You can also pickaxe under the center of the fortress to get everything in side without breaking it. Throw a shield generator in the middle and it's a solid safe place. Build portals into and out of the fortress so you don't need to scale the side
Watching your group struggle has been an absolute delight. I have some fun ideas for that catapult though...
Thanks Kitchen Cat! Yeah we have some ideas too!
@@BigBrianGameplay Hell yeah! Can't wait to see how far y'all go!
As someone that only play hardcore it surprises me the lack of planing and in the moment decision making from players that has played for hundreds of hours. Entertaining though, in a frustrating way.
Haha fair enough. I don't think anyone else has played the game at all properly in 1.5 years and if you take away playing the game is stupid ways neither have I!
Hello, enjoyed watching your party's adventures before our own sets out tonight. One thing I do want to point out is that our beloved Feather Cape's very weak modifier to Fire can be overwritten by the Barley Wine. Resist and weakness don't cancel each other out, resist just overwrites any existing weakness. Hopefully we can avoid some lava mishaps of our own with mad hops (and our Tasty/Lingering Stamina energy drinks). Will make sure to watch out for fireballs though haha
this series is great bro keep it up
You genuinely make me happy whenever you upload.
Awwww cheers
You're nailing the "asksvin" pronunciation now tbh!👍
Loving the content!
Thank you :)
Love this series, please see it through 🙏
Some of the best valheim content out there
Thanks mate!!
Great job, all of you guys.
Just one tip of you want, always carry a shield and i would suggest the new tower shield. I saw a few deaths were you could‘ve easily blocked the enemys and survived. Good luck with the rest of the ashlands and especially the boss haha.
Staff of the wild and the bubble shield make having a mage clutch. Frost staff is nice for leveling.
Love so much your video storys
Amazing video❤ it looks like im gonna have a hard time going into the ashlands😅
This is why i cant record me and my friends adventures, wed say so much stuff that'd get us canceled when were fighting or dying xD
hahaha well you learn to edit around those things :P
should've added the message about the Askvines saying "The more you know" xD
Me and 2 friends have just started a new world and are gonna go to ashlands fully prepared haha 🤣 making sure we got enough boats and portals haha
How upset are they gonna feel when they could have built the large portal entirely at base and in the ashlands without needing to transport metal cause you can find it in vases to which all you need is two iron
Yepppp. We didn't even know there was a new portal so we brought everything there for no reason haha
Me and my mate had to use a rock as a beach head. we mined the top flat, set up a small platforom and stuck eerything on there. that way we had a "safe" port that wouldnt get destroyed. Toughest place yet though.
yeah the first Fortress Siege is always the worst. Popping Bonemass and Fire resistance mead and having someone take care of the spawners while everyone else deals with the mobs is a good strat for co-op.
Having someone with magic, more specifically Staff of Protection to give you one-shot protection and Staff of Embers for AoE damage helps a lot to manage the mess that is a Charred army. Once you get the newer stuff you can craft in the Ashlands though, everything becomes way easier. The new magic staves especially can help someone solo a fortress siege.
12:52 Pure pain
Screaming like cockatoo :`D
I can't unhear it now!
Wooo so excited!!!
You all are so much stronger than i am, by the time my portal to the ashlands broke for the 3rd time, i decided to turn on console commands and rebuild the teleporter back. It has been pure pain, but ive logged 200 more hours on the game because of it.
Ooft, fair enough. It's doubly frustrating because the trip back is such a pain haha
Fellow Aussie, good story telling, just as much of a scrub as I am...take a sub mate!
I've only in the last few days got to sit down to try Ashlands. I think I handled it even worse than you :D It wasnt until my 5th boat I finally made landfall and established a portal. Two of those ships now lay on the sea floor, I didnt have floating nails (how on earth did you get away with that?!), and two more are moored near one of the spires I died twice by, and the final ship is safe at my portal.
One of the big shore rocks was just off shore a tiny bit and I was able to make a portal room on it to which I later added a 2nd portal to a land location. I can easily reach land from the first portal but have a better seteup on land at the 2nd. I made a tiny base out of gausten and put a shield generator in it after I went back home and got the metal I needed and should have taken there ages ago.
With a safe passage finally now all set up after several in-game weeks, I set out to sample the fruits of the land and...I'm sick of it. The flametal is so far away from shore it's night by the time I get near it, and even if I do reach it in the day, the enemies just keep coming. I'm finding the spawn timers and agro ranges very frustrating and it feels like it's tuned for group play, I only play solo. I have hundreds of ashlands kills already and barely been 200m outside my base.
When I play again today I will have to set up a portal relay I think. Probably the only way i'm going to get to flametal before dark.
Just have to remind myself it will get easier and keep grinding. I play with no mods or modifiers and I'm somewhat proud of that.
cant wait to get there
Uncanny just how accurate this video was to our playthrough. The only difference was that it broke me, I went god mode and brought sunder upon the Ash!
Me and my two friends all have rolls we naturally fell into. One is a mage/scout, other is builder/warrior while I tank being slowest but do the most damage with two handed weapons.
WAIT --- 1.st thing you do in ashlands to protect the base is to raise walls araund it.
Second, you can use the new buble thing to place protection near flamemetal deposit and nothing will hit you.
Also you dont have to destroy whole fortress to get in. You can raise a mudwall next to it and snipe out the spawners. Then you can just jump in and loot (and middle tower can be diged under)
Good humorous content.
Cheers mate!
Hmm ok, my first vid seeing the ashlands, I thought could only get better after the experience in the mistlands, now after I got a look at the ashlands here, I decided to take a break from Valheim
Maybe it's just us being bad!
I know the boat is supposed to be big but...that...is a BIG boat!
I forgot about The Queen item when I first logged back in with Ashlands update.... I died probably 10 times and lost just as many ships trying to sail straight in with them getting hurt by the water. Solo here, definitely very hard.
my #1 ashlands tip is always be mindful of the lava lmao
Yep I'm on board with that now!
Mistlands were already ridiculously hard. Ashlands is simply impossible.
I'd love an active group of players to play with like this. I just got into valhiem after it released for Xbox.
What a great video.
Thank you!
trollstav is dope but just be mindful that unless there is enemies around they will go for you lol me and my best friend tested out a lot of things when it was in public test lol
Here is a tip:
While raised ground walls can be destroyed by lava blobs, moats doesn’t, and prevents all mob AI from pathfinding across or they get stuck in there
Being dead in lava is the new meta.
You guys should have a magic guy with a staff of protection and skeletons. The staff of protection is really helpful and the skeletons make very good distractions
Calling out the developer for pitching the rocks and big ship, its so true!
I spent over an hour with the corners on the Grausten roof pieces before telling myself a horrible design mistake had been made and reported it as a bug in their feedback. Totally blew me away that something so big had been missed.
Need good ventilation in the ashlands I guess haha
As a solo player I died instantly when I jumped off the boat XD. I got smashed lol. I ended up going full steam food and just running for my life it gets a little easier inland.
Looks like fun, I'll be avoiding it for a while LOL
The devs are nerfing the Ashlands finally!
I spent 5 gaming sessions with my friends trying to retrieve my items in the Ashlands. 2, maybe 3 gaming sessions trying to get into the Ashlands, where our friend was stuck because the portal was destroyed and the materials mystically vanished. We built three drakkars in the whole ordeal.
Maneuvering a drakkar through those spires all the while being attacked by Bonemaws and vultures was frightening.
Dig a wide trench around your bases in the Ashlands. I'm a solo player, I have already located and cleaned out a fortress full of flametal ore. The Ashlands can be cheesed by digging holes and trapping things.
thıs ıs a re₺arded group of people. a trench didnt change anything
I play solo and my landing in the ashlands was actually pretty smooth. Idie like 1-2 per sitting bc i get overwhelmed, but my biggest problem is that you can't rly explore bc you have to fight for every meter you want to walk, building lots of portals is definitely key.
Could you do a tour of your base if you haven't already? Me and my clan (there are 3 of us total) are planning on combined our houses into one big single base and it seems like you guys have a good setup
I don't know how great our setup is, but I will do it at some point!
your videos are good
you need a spellcaster in the party, shields and fireballs
Try the new serpent trophy on a horixontal item stand, looks wayyyyy better imo. Use them like the crow and wolf things for roofs or put em on a plinth...nice options with the horizontal.
love this! any chance for a world download? would love to play along
I just got to ashlands today and I think there are definetely too many enemies there, its impossible to gather or build anything because im constantly attacked by groups of 4-5+ enemies, normal ones can be dealth with but some asksvins or morgens (especially with 1-2 starts) in addtions to few skeletons are just impossible to deal with
Maybe developers want us usaing more than one boat for exploring
Went flametal mining last night, had a trained Asksvin and a saddle, and thought, yeh, this will be a doddle, 24 deaths, some Asksvin hide, some tails, and a lost saddle later I have a renewed level of caution, it's so frekkin dangerous, the spawn rate is intense, and getting caught out at night is virtually a guaranteed corpse run. Yup, died 2 or 3 times being charged into the lava by Askvins, then died a few more times trying to recover, the holes, or depressions, seem to be the source of the lava homing missiles, so dying in one can be very bad, repeatedly, lol. It's a blast, a real challenge, just on normal settings, and yeh, I can see why most won't make it to Valhalla, and go back to something easy like Darksouls, ahahaha.
Looks fun. I do wish they would expand on the early game a bit more. There is quite a bottle neck for casual players
I played solo and I managed to make it all the way to Mistlands where I unfortunately died and couldn't recover my stuff. But goodness gracious I am so glad that I haven't even attempted Ashlands because this is so brutal.
Eh not rly. Its pretty easy if you come prepared. For landing area i recomend finding a area with buildings near a coast or dwermer outpost.
@@Bullminator Then why are 4+ of them struggling so hard??
@@jakov1043 More players = more damage from monsters close to them.
Also...they didnt raise the mud walls lol.
@Bullminator Ye ye speak what you want, I believe what I see and what I know. Ashlands has to be at least 3x harder than Mistlands.
I'm actually scared to start ashlands. I will be sure to make an extra set of gear before I go.
Make a ditch and raise a ground wall around your bridgehead.
Solo ashlands was actually quite okay. Most of my deaths were due to the lava which was super frustrating at times but after clearing fortresses (with tons of flametal) became quite easy that wasnt a problem anymore. Quite comparable to the mistlands difficulty imo but the biome is so dense it feels like a huge step up in pretty much everything except for dungeons.
The only thing im worried about is the gems. I cleared every fortress in my world and got like 14 iolites in total. I hope that wont be a problem in the future but obviously im afraid to experiment with new weapons. The dual axes are amazing tho.
Well final boss is weak to electric attacks, so going full electro is not a bad idea. Also dont make red gem weapons, they suck. Instead save them for workbench upgrade and secret flame sword.
I've been playing the Ashlands solo. It's very much as difficult as everyone else has said.
smoke bombs are for extinguish fires in base
sweet adventure, needs more easter eggs and lame shoutouts though
LOL I'll cook something up for part 3
You can use the catapult for mining flamemetal aimit with the simple payload and use the explosive
Yeah good luck aiming with army of mobs on your ass :D
@@Bullminator its not that bad i did it solo so its possible
Yo man, Is there any way of finding your music? sounds great!
Hey mate, not yet but I'll let you know if/when I upload some!
question: is ashlands harder than mistlands back when mistlands came out?
interesting question. I never got to play the pre-nerf version of the Mistlands because we made this world at around the time it first released, but by the time we got up to it they'd already lobotomised the Seekers.
What dedicated server are you using? Ive got terrible lag problems on mine just playing with 2 friends. Was a bit laggy before when we built a lot but nowadays when more than 1 enters the Ashlands enemies are just teleporting around and you cant hit anything.. read that from a lot of posts online but yours seems to do fine :D
No dedicated server, just hosting it myself. We did get some lag problems at times. There was one part that was really bad where I couldn't hit anything so I ended up cutting that all out! haha
I read the way the game works is that whoever is the first to an area is the host for that area, so try getting whoever has the best internet to go in first. It might help.
Lol me an my buddy are doing this just the 2 of us can't get our other friends to join us we out 3 boats all our skills for a small landing spot and after many deaths later we finally got a stone portal and are in business finally I'm afraid to see what they do with the deep north
Ashlands have been rough; however, why didn't I see one of you using magic? Frost staff tears those mobs apart and is safe to use around ship.
Yeah I talk about it at the end of vid haha. On this save we last played on it like a year and a half ago. We finished the Mistlands, and barely tried out the magic before everyone stopped playing until now. No one has any magic skills but I'll level some up because I have to try out these new staves.
@BigBrianGameplay the magic weapons are a game changer.
Kinda bummed about how the pillar stays gone super irritating for me being im solo but all my askvin tames also just straight up ran away so i figure they are gone
Why did you use a boat to move the metal and not the new portal?
Because we didn't know there was a new portal. Part of the fun of going in spoiler free aye
Im shocked you haven't been using blood/elemental magic that's the only way the 3 of us are surviving
as long as u are having fun, deaths dont matter but i agree i am playing solo and i have 1000 hours on the game and beat it on hardcore (but with map on) before but the lava explosions are the most bullshit deaths ever in the game. i only died 6 times in ashlands and 5 of those were like that the other death was against the boss.
as a solo player, i have no clue how i'm supposed to do this.
how is there no lag, do you have a server you would suggest, all my friends have good internet and good computers and the game is unplayable together because of lag.
We were just hosting ourselves. One thing I learnt was apparently the first person that gets to an area will be the host of that area, so when I was recording I tried to be the first through the portal to minimise lag for the recording. It didn't always work, it was pretty laggy at times, but not super bad.
A Norwegian here "Asksvin" is pronounced (in my dialekt) like the "ask" of task combined with svin from the word "Svin".
Fewer morgens? I literally had 2 morgens and 3 ashvins on me and 1 fallen Valkyrie. It’s insane 😭
I didn't say there weren't still tonnes of them hahah! But i stg there were a lot less compared to before the patches.
Just use the frost staff...because Valheim gives skill with each hit...and considering the frost staff is such a rapid fire one.
But don't try to snipe with it...